You are booked on a 5:00am Sunday flight from RDU...
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Which day? If you're scheduled for Sunday, I'd try to get out today or tomorrow!
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Do you want to be in NC or AR? Things may get kind of snarled for a few days.
If you want to be in AR, you might want to get out tomorrow. RDU may be a no go all of Sunday.
If you want to be in AR, you might want to get out tomorrow. RDU may be a no go all of Sunday.
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free change to when?
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Deigo.
OK, I am completely confused.
Did the airline offer you a change because of the prospective possibility of poor weather and a bad connection?
And what change did they offer you?
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Yep you're right. Family members think I know all the ins and outs of airline scheduling in weather and cancelation/change policies just because I've flown a plane before.
I just read the link they sent her, they are offering a change with no CHANGE FEE. That means just the $200 change fee is waived but she'd still have to pay any additional cost for the ticket, right?
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When I'm in high volume flying, I take that offer every time.
I'll move it early if Monday is critical. Or wait it out. But since I'm typically Mon-Fri if I can't get there until Wed I scrub the trip. They've always been no-fee cancels when the trip became too short to make sense. Probably not to be nice, just to have one less passenger to re-accommodate.
I'll move it early if Monday is critical. Or wait it out. But since I'm typically Mon-Fri if I can't get there until Wed I scrub the trip. They've always been no-fee cancels when the trip became too short to make sense. Probably not to be nice, just to have one less passenger to re-accommodate.
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Yep, they are saying the flight is still scheduled to be on time but weather forecast is for snow and freezing rain to begin by 4:00am on Sunday so they are proactively offering her a chance to change the flight without a change fee, for any day through the 15th.
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Stay home. Light a fire. Mix a hot rum toddie and a good book.
You won't miss experiencing the TSA either.
That's what I'm trying to talk her into. It's not a critical trip that she couldn't hold off til January actually. Would be a pain to postpone but not matter of life or death.
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If there is an involuntary reroute involved they typically do not charge the fare difference. (keep in mind, I'm at the top tier of their elite program YMMV)
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great thread
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Yup hubby just told me that too, no ticket price increase unless she gets a higher grade seat.
Depends how badly they need to get there.
Last summer I was at EWR and my flight home was overbooked. They offered something like a $700 credit toward a future flight and offered a re-route through ATL and then connect home from there. I waffled back and forth trying to decide if I wanted to take it. Kept asking myself, ‘do I want to risk getting stuck in Newark if the flight cancels or should I take the chance and get the voucher for another flight.’ I decided IM GOING FOR IT! Just as I started to walk up to the counter, some lady beat me to it.
Dang it!
Last summer I was at EWR and my flight home was overbooked. They offered something like a $700 credit toward a future flight and offered a re-route through ATL and then connect home from there. I waffled back and forth trying to decide if I wanted to take it. Kept asking myself, ‘do I want to risk getting stuck in Newark if the flight cancels or should I take the chance and get the voucher for another flight.’ I decided IM GOING FOR IT! Just as I started to walk up to the counter, some lady beat me to it.
Dang it!
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I’ve been where you are now. The decision you’re being asked to advise on isn’t whether to push the trip a month.
In cases like this, assuming you’re being asked by an adult age person, I’ve learned to simply ask what they think they should do.
Then ask why they think it should be done. Then ask what challenges they see with that course of action.
Then sum it up with, what do you think now?
And then I close with ‘I’m glad you asked me about this. I wish I could be more helpful, but there’s just so many variable and I don’t know enough about <whatever it is> to really answer this question, as the decision is yours and the impact is to you.
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As long as the flight from RDU makes it out, she'd be fine. DFW and Little Rock will be clear of any weather issues.
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She changed it to tomorrow. No price increase at all.
I think she made the right decision, she's going to get out just before it hits NC and should be all gone by the time she returns on Thursday.
Winter flying in the east... yuk.
I think she made the right decision, she's going to get out just before it hits NC and should be all gone by the time she returns on Thursday.
Winter flying in the east... yuk.
Hopefully that's enough. I seem to trigger massive eastern snowstorms every time I plan a trip. One thing I learned.. don't cut it close. I had a flight into Charlotte canceled even though it would have been 8 hours before a storm hit. The thinking is that the airlines want to send planes away from storms, not into them.
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Yeah now I'm worried. They've changed her to connect in Charlotte and nothing was available except evening, so she'll be connecting tomorrow evening in Charlotte. I'm not liking that much better. If it was me I'd have canceled the whole trip.
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So first leg is RDU - Charlotte?
If it were me and it was an important trip, I'd do a one way rental car from RDU to CLT - pretty much right now. Get American to let me board CLT on a flight today. The airline wants to get people out and CLT DFW is hub to hub, so lots of flights.
If the trip is not urgent, then just go some other time as you seem to be suggesting and take advantage of the free change fee.
If it were me and it was an important trip, I'd do a one way rental car from RDU to CLT - pretty much right now. Get American to let me board CLT on a flight today. The airline wants to get people out and CLT DFW is hub to hub, so lots of flights.
If the trip is not urgent, then just go some other time as you seem to be suggesting and take advantage of the free change fee.
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Yep now the first leg is to CLT. I doubt she'd rent a car but I passed along the idea.
Pffft.. She already got her free change, she thinks they'll charge her if she tries to change again. Oh well, it'll be what it'll be.
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Some times you even get an upgrade for no extra cost. My wife and I were riding UA back from CDG this past April, connecting through ORD to SEA. UA was worried about snow in ORD and offered us a no charge re-route. The second option on the web site had us leaving CDG an hour and a half earlier, changing planes in EWR. Coach tickets purchased, but that option was Polaris Business from CDG to EWR and First in a premium service plane from EWR to SEA. No extra charge. First time my wife had ridden in those seats. Took that option in a heartbeat. No extra cost. UA can do that anytime they want. I guess being a Million Mile flier and having Premier Gold (at a minimum) for life has its advantages.
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Ever since US Air bought AA they have been far less willing to make a second change. Even for high-value customers.
I would have either canceled or changed to a better time. Tomorrow may or may not be enough, especially going through Charlotte. Be ready to make a backup hotel reservation in Charlotte (though the hotels have you over a barrel since they put in 48 hour cancel policies).
bflynn
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Similar - I have a flight Monday morning and debating to moving to tomorrow because it is kinda critical for me to make it to Austin on Monday.
Still unknown how much snow/ice we will get.
Still unknown how much snow/ice we will get.
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Yes....
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Yes....
Get out of RDU on Saturday, or plan on staying until Tuesday.
We are already planning for overflights, and no Saturday layovers in the affected cities.
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Her flight from CLT to LIT tonight got canceled and so AA automatically re-booked her on a Monday morning flight out of RDU. So she got them on the phone (after a more than 2 hour wait) and the lady told her the Monday morning flight might also be canceled, so she canceled the whole trip, and they gave her a full refund.
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That sounds like a good answer. Going to be a mess for while.
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Looks like tons of flights are delayed or canceled. What's your latest info? Any chance you can cancel your important Austin thing?
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Nope, I have to be in Austin or I'll do it over the phone (ugh).
SWA has cancelled everything out of RDU today. All the other guys are struggling, but I get the sense they've given up. A few flights went out this morning, but nothing since about 12, everything says cancelled.
I'm debating carefully driving over to the airport with luggage and trying to get on anything going anywhere. I don't think tomorrow morning is going to be any better.
SWA has cancelled everything out of RDU today. All the other guys are struggling, but I get the sense they've given up. A few flights went out this morning, but nothing since about 12, everything says cancelled.
I'm debating carefully driving over to the airport with luggage and trying to get on anything going anywhere. I don't think tomorrow morning is going to be any better.
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Drive to Wilmington, get one of the 6:15 flights to Atlanta and from there get a flight to Austin late tonight.
You'd have to leave like, right now.
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I think you're turning out to be right.
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You mean to DRIVE to Austin?
FormerHangie
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That's a long way.
My daughter goes to school in State College, PA, we're in Atlanta. She was scheduled to fly out on the Friday before Thanksgiving, and on the day before, the mid atlantic got about eight inches of snow. Her flight on Friday was delayed two and a half hours, and she wasn't going to make her connection, and there was nothing open until Monday. I was ready to get her a hotel room in Detroit which is where her connection was, but she's 18 and has never traveled by herself before, and didn't want to do that so I went and got her. I left my office at 3 PM, got to northern Virginia at 12:45 AM, left there at 6:15 AM, got to State College at 9:05, left there at 9:15, and was home at 10:15 that night.
I averaged 48 mph including the time I was sleeping.
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Drive to Atlanta, I could make it to Austin tomorrow easily. No, Austin is like a 20 hour drive.
I'm rebooked on American, hoping they aren't going to be flaky. Will be pretty upset if they sold me a ticket on a flight they never intended to fly. But it feels like SWA isn't even trying, they best they could do with rebooking would have gotten me there Tuesday night.
I'm rebooked on American, hoping they aren't going to be flaky. Will be pretty upset if they sold me a ticket on a flight they never intended to fly. But it feels like SWA isn't even trying, they best they could do with rebooking would have gotten me there Tuesday night.